A REPORT conducted in 2008-2012 found that healthy eating messages are still not getting through as more and more children are classified as overweight or obese across the state.

The state government report found that the figure of overweight or obese children jumped from 18 per cent to 28 per cent in those four years.

That's an additional 700,000 children aged 5 to 18 who fit into those categories.

Healthy eating and the importance of eating a healthy breakfast have been highly documented among health professionals for a number of years but unfortunately the message is still being lost.

However, more Coastal pupils will start their day the right way when the Breakfast in Schools program is extended for the 2014 school year.

Yesterday Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Skills, Paul O'Halloran, was at Devonport Primary School officially launching the new revamped Breakfast in Schools program, which will be fully government- funded and rolled out to 28 schools across the state.

Devonport Primary School, which already has an established Breakfast in Schools program one day a week, has been approved for the extended program which will run every school morning in 2014.

Mr O'Halloran said in an ideal world it wouldn't be schools' responsibility to feed children in the morning but said unfortunately the world we live in wasn't ideal.

"There are a lot of factors," he said.

"And some kids just don't get to eat in the morning."

The Breakfast in Schools programs in the past have relied on the school to provision the resources for the program, but Mr O'Halloran said those approved for the program for 2014 will receive more than $100,000 in funding for those resources.

The $400,000 in funding will roll out over the next four years.

Mr O'Halloran said the government program was modelled on some US and Swedish schools where the school was actually responsible for all a students' meals while they were at the school.

"Schools do have a role to play in the building of healthy communities, and where better to start than with healthy kids," Mr O'Halloran said.